Thursday, February 26, 2009

Parents who give their offspring names all starting with the same initial

Forget the Octo-Mom (is she related to Doc Ock?); I’m way more disturbed by 17 Kids & Counting, the TLC show about the Duggar family. Yeah, there are 17 of them. I could comment about the crazy number of children but that would be like shooting fish in a barrel. That’s not what gripes my ass. Rather, it irritates me when parents give all their kids names starting with the same initial. Jordan, Jason, Jinga, Jessa, Jill, Joshua, John-David, Jennifer, Jackson, Justin, James—okay, enough already! Would it hurt you to throw a Kevin or Stacey in there, John Jacob Jingleheimer Jackass?

The Duggars aren’t alone. I grew up surrounded by kids who came from an alliterative household. Carol was kin to Cathy and Christine; Dan’s siblings were Dave, Debbie, and Diana. Dumb.

A few years back I did some work with kids on the Navajo reservation and several families that I met had named their broods using the same name but with different first letters. Thus, Matilda, Bertilda, and Wertilda--I am NOT making this up.

ah ha ha ha, the duggars. i give them 5 points for some of the creative lengths they've gone to to have that many j names, but i give them -5000 points for having that many kids and an additional -5 for the hair.

It's all over in the family I married into: Darlene, Delmar, Delfred, Dennis and Donald. Darlene married Gene and had another Donald. Older Donald married another Darlene and had Dean and Darcy. Dennis married Rozanne and had David, Daniel, Diane, and Dustin. Delfred married Donita. It's a clusterfu** - but do I win for remembering all of their names?!

Many people think my parents were on that track when they hear the names of 5 of 8 kids. We're all M's, but it wasn't intentional. How do you feel about identical initials?Like, D.M.D or M. N. M or... and the names are ridiculous to keep in that pattern. Yeah, it makes me punchy.

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